Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 10:10:11 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@NUXI.com> To: Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@rahul.net>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'make installworld' makes /var/mail world-not-writable Message-ID: <19990330101011.A49146@nuxi.com> In-Reply-To: <199903301412.AA21609@bolero-x.rahul.net>; from Rahul Dhesi on Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 06:12:56AM -0800 References: <199903301412.AA21609@bolero-x.rahul.net>
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> This came as a bit of a shock:
>
> 'make installworld' makes /var/mail world-not-writable
>
> As a result, users can no longer properly read their mail.
UTSL.
Looking at /usr/mtree/BSD.var.dist:
/set type=dir uname=root gname=wheel mode=0755
log
..
mail gname=mail mode=0775
which has been this way since 1997/05/03 (rev 1.26.2.2).
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-- David (obrien@NUXI.com -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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